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At the center of the world
our bodies float over each other
near to everything, at the center
of being
Not like arrows pointing in three directions
but like our own bodies
pulsing in and out
Laughter can cure nearly anything
it is sa
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& where, I wonder, is the poet’s planet,
What kind of king, or queen rules it?
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Now all I have left is yesterdays.
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She walks alone in black high heels
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The men who have come to take me have science on their side. I know this is true, and yet I sit on the same bed I've had since girlhood, unable to move myself to pack even a pair of socks. What does one wear at the asylum anyway? Pajamas? Certainly my suits will be useless.…
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There were always mocking birds around my house.
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That was the night that everything began to happen. It must have been past 3:00 a.m. when Darrell came down from the attic right into our bedroom. I lay nearly paralyzed with guilt beside my wife, trying to get to sleep. Elizabeth had staggered to bed
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Early reviews of Barney’s Version (the film) had prepared me for finding the book’s most amusing attributes – particularly its skewering of Quebec nationalist politics and Canadian cultural nationalism – left out. After all, turning a 417-page account of
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In his dream, he was choking on an ice cube. He didn’t know what would happen first — if it would melt or he would die.
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After the shooting, they sent the boy away. He returned taller and heavier, a sulkier version of his earlier self.
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A motivational speaker I know intimately cannot abide any form of swearing.
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I stared deep into the sepias...
And you touched my soul anew.
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Occupy Wall Street protestors in Boston complained that homeless people had taken coats, blankets and food donated to the fight against income inequality. “They don’t bring anything to the table,” said a spokesman at the information tent.
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A bride, dressed in white gown and flowing veil, totters in high heels down the uneven pavement past Simone’s Café. She holds a bouquet of red and orange chrysanthemums. Three men, wearing black tuxes, accompany her; one of them holds up the hem of her dr
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"My mother loses patience when I get sad," I said. "She tells me about the dog."
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Jackson ran his sweaty hands over his vintage cowboy shirt hoping testosterone would iron it.
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At least, I think it was him. It sure looked like him.
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A glance—I dissolved completely.
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This happened to me on Friday, May 3, 2002 in North Austin on the corner of North Lamar and Mulberry Street.
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Let me tell you a story, child, of how your father became your father...
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Can I really be blamed? Look at the circumstantial evidence: you wore that skirt, which can hardly be called a skirt. More like a very wide plaid belt.
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Step off, dude. I have no intention of coming back to you.
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it seemed odd
from even the
first few seconds.
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Eve is eating a plum. The plum is cold and how it got cold is sort of a mystery, but there are mysteries everywhere and the cold juice on her face doesn't really incline her to worry much about mysteries.
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This is your mystery, your story Full of beauty and all-encompassing loveA brushstroke washes the canvas cleanYou start over with a new directionDreaming of me as you paint your wordsWriting just like Keats, Shelley and BrontëAbout sorrow, rain and the wheels of passion
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I have, for example, watched Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" 117 times.
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This morning Katie and Jimmy are learning about the potters field—the one where Judas Iscariot was buried—from their grandma.
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My heart hurts as I miss you here./This was your intention, I know./
And nor is my reaction unique.
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I was a peasant girl, believe me, and nothing much to look at--- close set eyes, one blue and one green, wispy brown hair and a chin that dominated every other feature of my face.
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